In a case that falls under any of the following items, the violating person is subject to punishment by imprisonment for not more than three years, a fine of not more than 3,000,000 yen, or both:
次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、当該違反行為をした者は、三年以下の拘禁刑又は三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。
the person violates the provisions of Article 11 in engaging in prepaid installment sales in the course of trade;
the person violates the provisions of Article 31 in engaging in the intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases in the course of trade;
第三十一条の規定に違反して包括信用購入あつせんを業として営んだとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 35-3-23 in engaging in the intermediation of individual credit purchases in the course of trade;
第三十五条の三の二十三の規定に違反して個別信用購入あつせんを業として営んだとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 35-3-30;
第三十五条の三の三十の規定に違反したとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 35-3-61 in having dealings in specified prepaid transactions in the course of trade; or
第三十五条の三の六十一の規定に違反して前払式特定取引を業として営んだとき。
the person violates the provisions of Article 35-17-2 in engaging in making a contract for handling credit card numbers in the course of trade.
第三十五条の十七の二の規定に違反してクレジットカード番号等取扱契約の締結を業として行つたとき。
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intermediation of comprehensive credit purchases
「包括信用購入あつせん」
Giving a user a card or similar means (カード等) — a card, number or code — with which the user can buy goods or rights from particular sellers, or receive services from particular service providers, then paying the seller or provider and collecting the amount from the user later: either by a set date more than two months after the purchase contract, or in amounts worked out at set intervals from the total bought.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
intermediation of individual credit purchase
「個別信用購入あつせん」
Without using a card or similar means (カード等), paying a particular seller or service provider all or part of the price of goods, designated rights (指定権利) or services it sells or provides to a purchaser, and collecting that amount from the purchaser by set dates — except where it is all collected by a set date within two months of the purchase contract.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
specified prepaid transaction
「前払式特定取引」
Acting as an intermediary in the purchase of goods (商品の売買の取次ぎ), or providing, or acting as an intermediary for, services a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies, where all or part of the price is received from the purchaser or service recipient in three or more installments over two months or more before the goods are delivered or the services provided.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
prepaid installment sales
「前払式割賦販売」
An installment sale (割賦販売) under Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) in which the seller receives all or part of the price of designated goods (指定商品) in two or more payments before delivering them — a business that needs a license from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Short name set inArticle 11, paragraph (1)
contract for handling credit card numbersmachine translation
「クレジットカード番号等取扱契約」
A contract of a kind Article 35-17-2 lists, by which a credit card purchase intermediary (クレジットカード等購入あつせん業者), or a business acting for a particular one, allows a seller or service provider that takes card payments to handle the credit card numbers and similar codes (クレジットカード番号等) the intermediary gives its users.
Defined inArticle 35-17-5, paragraph (1), item (viii)
fine
罰金
A criminal punishment of paying money to the state, of 10,000 yen or more, or less where it is reduced (Penal Code, Article 15). It ranks below imprisonment (拘禁刑) and above penal detention (拘留) and a petty fine (科料) (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). A person who cannot pay it in full is held in a workhouse (労役場) for one day to two years, or up to three years where fines are imposed together, a period set when the sentence is passed (Article 18, paragraphs (1), (3) and (4)); not within thirty days of the sentence becoming final without the person's consent (paragraph (5)). If it is not enforced for three years after the sentence becomes final, the person is released from it by prescription (Articles 31 and 32, item (v)); the three years do not run while its execution is suspended under law or the person is abroad, and an act of execution interrupts them (Articles 33 and 34, paragraph (2)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 15, 18, 31 to 34 as a reference.
imprisonment
拘禁刑
The punishment of being held in a penal institution (刑事施設), for life or for a fixed term of one month to twenty years (Penal Code, Article 12, paragraphs (1) and (2)); a fixed term can be raised to thirty years where the punishment is aggravated, or cut below one month where it is reduced (Article 14, paragraph (2)). To help the person reform and rehabilitate, they may be made to do work or given guidance (Article 12, paragraph (3)). It ranks below the death penalty and above a fine (罰金) among the principal punishments (Articles 9 and 10, paragraph (1)). It replaced imprisonment with work (懲役) and imprisonment without work (禁錮) when the Act Partially Amending the Penal Code, etc. (Act No. 67 of 2022) came into force (Act No. 67 of 2022, Article 2), and a person sentenced to either is treated, for the rules on a person's qualifications, as sentenced to imprisonment for the same term (Act No. 68 of 2022, Article 443, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Penal Code, Arts. 9, 10, 12, 14, Act No. 67 of 2022, Art. 2 and Act No. 68 of 2022, Art. 443 as a reference.